But, I still believe that such a tax will need to be perfect to work.

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He needed things to be perfect, and it took time to figure out what perfect was.

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They put off getting started on projects because they want all the conditions to be perfect.

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And, women think we have to be perfect and know everything before we start to do anything.

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Unfortunately women think we have to be perfect and know everything before we start to do anything.

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Releases like XCOM: Enemy Unknown further drive home the perception, but the price will have to be perfect.

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He said no set of numbers is going to be perfect, that at best they define broad trends.

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It can feel like admitting to wanting to be perfect has become taboo.

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W. Bush in 1980 -- turned out to be perfect primarily because they didn't cause much of a stir.

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Around this time of year, we all want our families to be perfect.

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No employee is ever going to be perfect and the ones who appear so on paper can be far from ideal.

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Buying by the central banks and riots in the streets are supposed to be perfect conditions for a rise in gold.

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"No budget is going to be perfect for everyone, but this is a credible, important first step in the process, " said Sen.

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"We know that enforcement is never going to be perfect, " but this measure should make it "much harder" for teens to get cigarettes, Farley said.

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No material to this very day has proven to be perfect.

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But McClellan acknowledged that the upcoming vote "is not going to be perfect, " and that some provinces will see almost no turnout because of the continuing violence.

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Needless to say, a play doesn't have to be perfect to be worth seeing, and "The Great God Pan, " for all its defects of craft, is never boring.

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"We have to be perfect in every area, " he said.

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"I suppose I expected it to be perfect, " she says.

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He was a perfectionist - it had to be perfect.

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You don't have to be perfect to be a hero.

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They'll all be flooding back to watch their team hopefully put one over the English and the Aviva Stadium will be rocking, which means England's focus has to be perfect.

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But we were never sent here to be perfect.

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Do I believe our politicians need to be perfect?

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If there are any areas that England should reconsider, one would be the unnecessary way in which team-mates seem to fall out with each other on the field with everyone trying to be perfect.

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We expect the pope to be perfect.

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We need to be perfect on Saturday.

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"The manager who asks, 'what can I do to be a more effective supervisor for you' is sending the signal that no one is expected to be perfect in that we can learn from each other, " Zenger says.

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We want everything to be perfect.

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The risks of waiting for everything to be perfect are even higher, though, because you can find yourself close to launch without enough of a developer community to assure that users will have the applications they need to find your product engaging and helpful.

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